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Saturday, 2 January 2010

One thing I didn't mention yesterday was the attitude socialists should take toward awards and lists. I understand some on the left take umbrage at them, but as far as I'm concerned anything that can introduce socialist bloggers and socialist politics to a wider audience is a good thing. That's one reason why I haven't and won't be boycotting Iain Dale's annual poll, and why I'm submitting the following ten to the Orwell Prize for Blogging.

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I've decided to enter - all though I'm a little hamstrung as a fair few of my better writings were articles for Socialism Today or the Socialist and are therefore ineligable. I only tended to polish the writing style properly if I was writing for publication elsewhere, so I probably haven;t a cats chance in hell of winning

http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/01/will-israels-leaders-be-put-before-war.htmlI ask whether the trial of Israels leaders for war crimes that some of the anti-Gaza bombings campaigners were calling for would be a possibility.

http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-run-in-with-law.htmlMy account of how certain 'anti-social behaviour' policies are money spinners for companies

http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/03/brunstrom-watch-i-meet-brunstrom.htmlMy encounter with the then chief of north wales police, Richard Brunstrom

http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/07/haitian-election-boycotts-masses-reject.htmlMy comments on the massive election boycott in Haiti in the summer

http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/07/british-prison-in-nigeria.htmlI pick apart the governments announcement in the summer of its intent to build a prison to house nigerian convicts currently imprisoned in Britain

http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/11/out-with-bad-mercenaries-in-with.htmlI highlight that the mercenaries the US government is hiring to replace Blackwater with are just as unsvaoury as they are

http://andnowforsomethingcompletelysectarian.blogspot.com/2009/12/raging-against-machine.htmlMy take on the xmas number 1 battle

http://andnowforsomethingcompletelysectarian.blogspot.com/2009/11/trotsky-on-paris-commune.htmlI look at Trotsky's analysis of the Paris Commune and critique Donny Gluckstein's view of this

http://andnowforsomethingcompletelysectarian.blogspot.com/2009/09/bnp-and-council-cuts.htmlI point out the BNP's statements on making public sector cuts more severe in Kirklees

and one that i replaced with the above at the last minute

http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/2009/02/naming-and-shaming.htmlI argue that naming and shaming should be directed at 'respectable criminals' rather than petty offenders